Apr 2021 Ballito Umhl

Text: Kym Argo
26 Get It • Ballito Umhlanga April 2021
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We’ve mastered meat-free Mondays. Now let’s take it a step further.
Love plants
Embracing a plant-based lifestyle
The daughter of a goat farmer, Tammy Fry saw
how, day after day, the goats were sold for
slaughter. But she realised that if she named
the individual goats, they crossed the line from
being ‘units of currency’ to pets. So she started
naming as many of them as possible.
The same goat farmer, many years later, swore
off meat forever, and in the early 1990s, he and
his wife started The Fry Family Food Company,
known internationally for its range of plantbased
food products.
Tammy, recently named as one of the top eight
women changing the world through food,
and founder of Meat-Free Mondays here and
in Australia, knows all too well the challenges
of choosing a plant-based lifestyle … and
discusses them, and the solutions, in her first
book Made with Love and Plants. More than a
recipe book, it’s full of really useful, thoughtful
information … from why you should choose a
plant-based diet to transitioning (don’t go cold
turkey!), answering questions – where do you
get your iron (beans and legumes and broccoli
and dates), and giving essential tips (navigating
the supermarket and decoding labels).
There are nearly six dozen really great recipes,
that quickly dispel the idea that this diet is
boring or restrictive.
There’s a breakfast carrot cake (Carrot cake.
Breakfast. Swoon) and glazed, grilled fruit
skewers with chocolate sauce to get your
day off to a sweet start, the prettiest, tastiest
Vietnamese rice paper rolls with hoisin-peanut
dipping sauce or loaded homemade nachos
for midday Summer snacking, and a West
African coconut curry that’ll have you dishing
up seconds in no time.
Tammy suggests you milk coconuts, not cows,
and so there are recipes for rice, coconut,
almond and cashew nut milk, and a whole
section on treats and lunch box ideas.
If you’re thinking of going the plant-based
route, we bet this book will sway you; if not, it’s
worth a buy for recipes for you to keep meatfree
Mondays interesting. Simple. Delicious.
Healthy. All you want, really. For more from
Tammy, visit seed-blog.com.
Vanilla nice cream with cookie crumble
This one makes the nice list. Nice to eat, nice to make, nice ’n’ healthy too.
You’ll need: 3 frozen bananas; 1 Tbsp maple syrup; a few drops natural
vanilla extract; 1 Tbsp cocoa powder (optional for making chocolate ice
cream); quarter cup coconut milk (if necessary); crunchy oat and choc
cookies (recipe in the book, or use any other vegan cookie, crumbled)
To make: Add the bananas, maple syrup, vanilla extract and cocoa
powder (if using) to a powerful blender and blitz until smooth. Add
small amounts of the coconut milk, if required for a smoother texture.
Serve in a bowl or a cone, topped with crumbled cookies.